Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d46d934188d10c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

194.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 15:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e1a9b7787a1c06f0b872dd4168c1e21 SHA-1: 7137921ccad3dfdd610460da1b9301b42b141194 SHA-256: 44d46d934188d10cbc38e6b51192fb7054f66893770023a90195472124e91355
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9367

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/ruwemupexajegemulare.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a3fdc48dd6d4613e5b40d79ddd6e8d/nozovaf.pdf
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/26809729217.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef49ad90e9e45ddb3fefd5c52a00f5a/xezatamulaze.pdf
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/39385130432.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608248b69f5d4---wubexuf.pdf
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/83578250147.pdf
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/22866568208.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7533052892---31360511658.pdf
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/ferakozizixapenulazor.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885a3404a6a---93604480436.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3ff3a9ec17ba7ea43af3a3b7e5f5fe/41921950815.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f8e147739---61301467647.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb3201894e---354661021.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e76609fb0cbda6df4994bca517a8780/57401649287.pdf
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621757073.pdf
    • http://sunarfactory.com/userfiles/files/48621768470.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq10he9jcs56rthihi2g16i550/tewomajipukofajawu.pdf
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/71835134053.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/8909815728.pdf
    • http://mtprospectbaptist.org/clients/7/74/74f10a8404da00fab064704771972c19/File/pivokavu.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ead238416647a468e973e2351956146/58903066528.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b916ef54f---lazojetarixinenanibopep.pdf
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/vumajujinalotowujiwex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+belief+in+one+god
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002361c.bin
381d3c2d82707b7a16a1b63b5ed356ad28684e102e228fbc9c7c1a2c4ecec114
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2361C 28912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000278b1.bin
d4266682923475b1596e66f349993ec418f16f106e52c70eb73ea9598f5e9666
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x278B1 10208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00028f2b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28F2B 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0002a73c.bin
74936a4bfbdca0cf41d6b58630b9199570af2a76d3f633267aad7347fa9fcbc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A73C 19204 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0002c755.bin
59dd36ef6836527f9952b200a9e4bb4bf3dfe41d890f19ddb7a1c1549d40c169
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2C755 17920 bytes